Retirement planning eventsThe MGH will host a number of retirement planning events. Tax-sheltered annuity (TSA) fairs will be held June 4, from 7:30 am to 4 pm in the Thier Conference Room and June 5, from 9 am to 2 pm at CNY, Building 149, Center Lobby. Financial planning seminars will be held June 4 in the O'Keeffe Auditorium at the following times: 9:15 to 10:15 am, Vanguard; 12:15 to 1:15 pm, TIAA-CREF; and 2 to 3 pm, Fidelity. MGH Cash Balance Retirement Plan and Retiree Medical Sessions will be held June 6, from 7:30 to 8:30 am in the O'Keeffe Auditorium; June 11, from 12:15 to 1:15 pm in the O'Keeffe Auditorium; June 11, from 2 to 3 pm in the O'Keeffe Auditorium; and June 12, from noon to 1 pm at CNY, Building 149, Room 2204. To enroll in a TSA or change a contribution amount, visit ibridge.partners.org/getaccess.

Senior HealthWISE eventsMGH Senior HealthWISE will host the following free events: hypertension screenings June 2, from 1:30 to 2:30 pm at Hill House, 127 Mt. Vernon St., and a film screening of "Sage: Stories of Incredible Boston Seniors" June 5, from 11 am to noon in the Haber Conference Room with guest speaker Mary Ann Hardenbergh of Action for Boston Community Development. For more information, call (617) 724-6756.

Global health seminarThe MGH Center for Global Health and the MGH Cancer Center will co-host "Strategies for Healthcare Financing in Under-Resourced Environments" June 7, from 9:15 to 10 am in the O'Keeffe Auditorium. Muhammad Yunus, PhD, founder of Grameen Bank and the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will be the guest speaker. For more information, contact Ellen Hartjes at (617) 726-4090.

Community Benefit event honoring MGH missionThe MGH Community Benefit Program will sponsor a special event June 3, from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. Peter L. Slavin, MD, president of the MGH, will host the event, John Auerbach, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, will be the guest speaker; and keynote speaker David Satchel, MD, PhD, former U.S. surgeon general, will discuss "The Role of Academic Medical Centers in Improving Community Health." For more information, contact Alys Myers at amyers6@partners.org.

Wellman Center lecturesThe MGH Wellman Center for Photomedicine will host the following lectures: "Coherent Imaging Technologies for Guiding and Monitoring Therapies" June 3 with Benjamin Vakoc, PhD, of the Wellman Center; and "Optical Analysis of Tissue Mechanics: Applications in Evaluating Atherosclerosis" June 5, with Seemantini Nadkarni, PhD, of the Wellman Center. Both lectures will be held from 2:15 to 3:15 pm in the Thier Conference Room. For more information, contact Nicole DeVoe at ndevoe@partners.org.

Collins LectureAs part of the 2008 Collins Lecture Series, the MGH Department of Radiation Oncology will sponsor "Big Pharma: Marketing and Profits" June 3, from 5 to 6 pm in the Bigelow Conference Room on White 4. Herman D. Suit, MD, DPhil, of MGH Radiation Oncology, will host the lecture, and Marcia Angell, MD, of Harvard Medical School and the former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, will be the guest speaker. For more information, call Julie Finn at (617) 724-1155.